Putin says Russia could respond in kind against Western nations that allow Ukraine use of long-range missiles

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Moscow would consider responding in kind directly against Western nations that allowed Ukraine to strike Russia with their long-range missiles.

Putin was speaking to international news agency editors in St. Petersburg.

US officials first said in April that Ukraine had begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the US, and on May 30, a senior official said US President Joe Biden had lifted restrictions on Ukraine using weapons supplied by the US against targets on Russian territory, but only to defend the under-fire Kharkiv region.

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